A historic deal was reached at a U.N. biodiversity conference that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world's lands and oceans.
early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world's lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.
"There has never been a conservation goal globally at this scale," Brian O'Donnell, the director of the conservation group Campaign for Nature, told reporters."This puts us within a chance of safeguarding biodiversity from collapse. ... We're now within the range that scientists think can make a marked difference in biodiversity."
"The new text is a mixed bag," Andrew Deutz, director of global policy, institutions and conservation finance for The Nature Conservancy, said."It contains some strong signals on finance and biodiversity but it fails to advance beyond the targets of 10 years ago in terms of addressing drivers of biodiversity loss in productive sectors like agriculture, fisheries, and infrastructure and thus still risks being fully transformational.
But they have struggled for nearly two weeks to agree on what that protection looks like and who will pay for it. Police officers walk past a sign as they patrol outside the Palais de Congres, during the COP15, the two-week U.N. biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022."All the elements are in there for a balance of unhappiness which is the secret to achieving agreement in U.N. bodies," Pierre du Plessis, a negotiator from Namibia who is helping coordinate the African group, told The Associated Press.
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